AAJA
August 4-9, 2002
The Fairmont Dallas, Texas

Weekend Edition Sunday's Wilma Consul again this year leads the AAJA radio project team that produces the program called "The Beat." The radio project is designed to give five competitively selected journalism students the opportunity to write, edit, record and produce their own stories for their own program.

"The Beat" project at the AAJA convention is part of a long tradition to have a training ground for promising young journalists who could go on to have successful professional careers.

A total of 40 students are chosen to work on the four projects that run simultaneously at the conference: The projects are: Newspaper (AAJA Voices), Radio (The Beat), Television (AAJA News Now) and New Media. Each project has completely functional and running newsrooms modeled after actual newsrooms to enrich the students' experience.